Archive for January, 2009

Above, the Buyogan Festival at Jones Avenue, Cebu City during Sinuog ’09. Photo by mikiruiz.

Sinulog 2009 in Cebu City was a blast!

calle Zaragosa productions was commissioned to document the participation of the Buyogan Festival of Abuyog, Leyte at the Sinulog last January 18,2009.

And, indeed, it was such a rewarding experience for everyone as the Buyogan Festival emerged champion of Sinulog ’09!

A brief backgrounder for those not in the know: the Buyogan Festival is the current title holder as champion of the Leyte Pintados-Kasadyaan Festival held last June 27, 2008 during the Tacloban City fiesta celebration. The last time Buyogan Festival participated in the Sinulog was in 1996 (?) – more than a decade ago.

Documentation work included coverage of the contingent’s rehearsals as well as other behind-the-scene activities. Our team accompanied the contingent to Cebu, leaving Tacloban for Ormoc early morning of January 15, and taking the fully-loaded slow boat to Cebu (by coincidence, also travelling with us in the ship were the contingents from Dulag’s Tribu Karatong and Borongan’s Karasikas group.)

The birth of calle Zaragosa productions’ site in the web has long been forthcoming – the general idea has actually been floating around for months. What finally triggered its induced birth, so to speak, were two successive events which happened this month (a very good sign, for sure) – the Cebu Sinulog 2009 festival and a cool wedding.

I’ll have to leave this post meantime while I go figure out how to set up the other widgets and settings with this new baby…

Welcome to calle Zaragosa productions! – the production arm of www.callezaragosa.com.

calle Zaragosa productions is a multi-media production group based in Tacloban City, Leyte, Philippines specializing in documentation & publication work. It provides services for mass media production to cover print, broadcast and special media.